There's also Ocram:

https://github.com/copton/ocram

Make sure you read the paper at

http://www.vs.inf.ethz.ch/publ/papers/bernauer_ipsn2013.pdf

Janos

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Stephen Schaub <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am doing pure research on TOS threading solutions. There is no particular
> application at the moment. I was drawn to tosthreads as a reference
> threading solution because of its inclusion in the distribution, but ran
> into trouble when developing a test application with it.
>
> I am relatively new to TOS, and one of the things that appeals to me about
> tosthreads is the way it permits the application developer to make blocking
> calls within a thread. The resulting elimination of the need for many
> callbacks seems to simplify the code.
>
> Thanks so much for your feedback!
>
> Stephen
>
>
> On 2/14/2014 4:05 PM, Eric Decker wrote:
>
>
> TinyOs is a low level event driven embedded OS.  Predominately applications
> use a combination of interrupt level and the TinyOS task level which is the
> middle layer (tosthreads is a lower background layer).
>
> I am not aware of any other threaded implementations that are equivilent to
> tosthreads.
>
> the question I originally asked is why do you need tosthreads?   what
> problem are your solving.
>
> I understand that you are researching it.   But what problem are you trying
> to solve and why is tosthreads a match for solving that problem.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Stephen Schaub <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the info about tosthreads not being maintained. That's helpful
>> to know.
>>
>> I would be interested to know if there are any competitively multithreaded
>> solutions for TOS that are being actively supported.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>>
>> On 2/14/2014 2:33 PM, Eric Decker wrote:
>>
>>
>> tosthreads isn't being actively maintained.
>>
>> and it sounds like you have found a bug.   so you will probably have to
>> debug it to figure out what is going on.
>>
>> do you have an environment where you can actively observe the machine
>> state?  ie.  a jtag environment?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 4:41 AM, Stephen Schaub <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Eric,
>>>
>>> I am researching TOS threading approaches. I thought I would start with
>>> tosthreads since it is included in the distribution.
>>>
>>> On 2/13/2014 10:42 PM, Eric Decker wrote:
>>>
>>> why are you using tosthreads?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Stephen Schaub <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have not had success using TOSThreads to write to the Uart interface.
>>>> So, I devised the following test.
>>>>
>>>> Using tinyos-2.1.2 distribution, I performed the following test with two
>>>> telos motes:
>>>>
>>>> cd apps/tosthreads/apps/RadioStress
>>>> make install,1 telosb threads bsl,/dev/ttyUSB1
>>>>
>>>> The mote's led's indicate that it is transmitting.
>>>>
>>>> cd apps/tosthreads/apps/BaseStation
>>>> make install,2 telosb threads bsl,/dev/ttyUSB0
>>>>
>>>> The mote's led's indicate that it is receiving.
>>>>
>>>> export MOTECOM=serial@/dev/ttyUSB0:telosb
>>>> java net.tinyos.tools.Listen
>>>>
>>>> Output to the console is a stream of bad packet messages:
>>>>
>>>> serial@/dev/ttyUSB0:115200: bad packet
>>>> serial@/dev/ttyUSB0:115200: bad packet
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> Now, I replace the threaded version of BaseStation with the event-based
>>>> one:
>>>>
>>>> cd apps/BaseStation
>>>> make install,2 telosb bsl,/dev/ttyUSB0
>>>>
>>>> Output from java net.tinyos.tools.Listen now appears correct.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone confirm this behavior? Is this a known problem with the
>>>> BaseStation threads demo?
>>>>
>>>> Stephen
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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